A miniaturized spectrometer radiometer based on MMIC technology for tropospheric water vapor profiling

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2181-2194

  Iturbide Sanchez, Flavio ^a,b,c   Reising, Steven C ^a,d   Padmanabhan, Sharmila ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Humidity measurement; Microwave radiometry; Monolithic microwave and millimeter wave integrated circuits (MMICs); Multichip modules (MCMs); Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE-FREQUENCY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTATION; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE; RADIO-FREQUENCY; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34347241720     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.898444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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